“We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.” NeedsShouldBodyFormCausesImpossibleEffectsInformationObjectsExerciseDiscoveryAddKnowledge And Power Author:Michel Foucault
“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.” WorldShouldHumansBehindsImpossibleProudStormFinishedAbstractAshamedBe ProudBlueprintsVaults Author:Tomas Transtromer
“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.” ShouldMotherCoursesGriefDarknessImpossiblePossibilityDenyGrievingRebirthTransformingRadiantOld Life Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.” ShouldPresidentPartyDemocracyImpossibleIndependentExposedImpossibilityMubarak Author:Madeleine Albright
“Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.” NeedsShouldImpossibleDutyFamePosts Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.” ThinkingShouldWarImpossibleRevolutionPerseveranceSoldier Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."” KnowsMenWorldShouldBelieveMaySaidLyingImpossibleHonestDeceitOne ManDishonestyHonest Man Author:William Shenstone
“You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.” ShouldTryingFirstsTwoBookReasonReadingTeachHellImpossibleAnnoyingPigsImpossibilityBooks And Reading Author:Will Rogers
“The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.” WantShouldHumansHumanityAsksJesusHuman BeingsImpossibleWant UImplicationsImpossible Things Author:Peter J. Gomes
“The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.” FeelsShouldYearsGrowthRaceClassCuttingImpossibleDangerSourceMadnessSuperiorsInsaneStreamsFedsSteadyRapidsRestrictionUnnaturalEnergeticAnother YearThriftyRapid Growth Author:Winston Churchill
“We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.” IfsLoveShouldHandsImpossibleUnhappiness Author:Jean de la Bruyere